gdrove

An RClone-like Google Drive tool to help you sync files to and from your personal computer and between Google Drive folders!

install

windows

pip install gdrove

linux

pip3 install gdrove

paths

Paths can be of five types: local (ld), my drive (md), shared drive (sd), file id (fi), and alias.

format

Paths are formatted as path_type:dir1/dir2/dir3, where path_type is the type of path (see below) and dir1/dir2/dir3 is the path to the file from wherever you want.

local (ld)

Local, specified as ld:path/to/some/folder, represent a local directory to download to or upload from.

my drive (md)

My Drive, specified as md:path/to/some/folder, is similar to RClone's method of paths, where the path is revative to your my drive folder.

shared drive (sd)

Shared Drive, specified as sd:drive_name/some/directory, where drive_name is the name of a Shared Drive, reference a file in a Shared Drive, whose name you specify as the first directory.

file id (fi)

File Id, specified as fi:S0M3_F1L3_1D, where S0M3_F1L3_1D is a File Id accessable to your user. This is the biggest thing RClone doesn't have, and allows you to clone from random public directories without having to add them to My Drive.

alias

Alias, specified as alias_name:path/to/some/folder, uses an alias to show some root folder. This feature is still being worked on and will be fleshed out later.

auth

To authenticate with gdrove, you'll need to create a credentials.json in the directory you're running the program in. This requirement may be lifted in the future, with default credentials supplied. You can use gdrove config account user acnt_name to create and authorize a new account named acnt_name. You can also create a Serivce Account using gdrove config account sa acnt_name sa.json to create a new Serivce Account named acnt_name using the Service Account file sa.json.

syncing

To sync, use gdrove sync account_name source_path destination_path, with account_name being the name of an account, source_path being the path to the source folder, and destination_path being the path to the destination folder.

TODO

• Refactor, putting filtering logic in it's own function with a callback/comparison function
• Implement multithreaded dtd
• Measure performance benefits of multithreaded ltd and dtl on high bandwidth machines
• Implement impersonation (not as bad as it sounds, I swear)

Maybe TODO

• Implement dtltd (download from drive to local then reupload to other account, for when you want to copy between accounts when only one account has access to each side)